Although the literature in peace psychology has been growing rapidly, many American
psychologists are unaware of how conflict is resolved and peace is conceptualized and …

The contributions of American psychologists to war have been substantial and responsive to
changes in US national security threats and interests for nearly 100 years. These …

This handbook encompasses a range of disciplines that underlie the field of peace
education and provides the rationales for the ways it is actually carried out. The discipline is …

Understanding Peace: A Comprehensive Introduction fills the need for an original,
contemporary examination of peace that is challenging, informative, and empowering. This …

Violence against children is a pervasive problem that affects approximately half of the
world's children each year, imposing heavy burdens of physical, psychological, and social …

The chapter introduces a new approach to attitude change, termed paradoxical thinking. It
suggests that messages that are consistent with an individual's view, but formulated in an …

Resolving intergroup conflicts is one of humanity's most important challenges. Social
psychologists join this endeavor, not only to understand the psychological foundations of …

Positive psychology has been largely distant from the substantial science of peace studies.
This is unfortunate as the mutual synergy between these fields holds vast opportunity …

Abstract The purpose of The Psychological Components of a Sustainable Peace, a book
edited by Peter Coleman and Morton Deutsch (Coleman and Deutsch 2012), is to enhance …

Purpose Taking into account previous literature on the role that the parenting styles to which
individuals are exposed to during childhood have in shaping prosocial behaviors and …